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ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages 3557-3573Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-013-1026-y
Keywords
Water quality; ETM; TM5; Mosul Lake; Mapping
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- German Academic Exchange Service
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Mosul Dam Lake is the main reservoir in Iraq, supporting the water demand of Mosul, Baghdad, and other cities. The aim of this study is to derive simple and accurate algorithms for the retrieval of water quality parameters for Mosul Dam Lake from Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 reflectance data. The water quality measurements were performed in situ during March and July 2011. These measurements included temperature, turbidity, Secchi disk, chlorophyll-a, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, total inorganic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, total dissolved solids, and pH. In order to properly use the values of reflectance bands, images enhancement techniques have been used. The field measurements were compared with reflectance values of Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 bands using different band combination of empirical algorithms. Generally, the results of analysis showed significant correlation between these models and water quality parameters with R (2) > 0.7 and p < 0.05, and the ETM+ algorithms were more precise, R (2) > 0.9 and p < 0.02. The results of comparison between the predicted water quality parameters and those measured in situ displayed more reliability for the models used, R (2) > 0.9, and values of the root mean square error ranged from 0.9 to 0.001. ArcGIS 10 was used to simulate the distribution values of water quality parameters calculated from spectral values of TM5 and ETM+ bands. The results of spatial analysis demonstrate that it is possible to use the TM5 and ETM+ images to evaluate the water quality for Mosul Dam Lake.
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